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Published January 26, 2021 at 5:58 PM EST Listen • 50:38 / Untitled "Ventanita entreabierta" or “Window Ajar” is one of Emilio Sanchez's paintings of windows and doors, produced from memory between 1960 and 1999. How will immigration look under the Biden administration? And the U.S. Postal Service pays tribute to an iconic Cuban-American artist — we’ll learn about Emilio Sanchez. On this Tuesday, Jan. 26 episode of Sundial: Immigration Under The Biden Administration With a new presidential administration, comes a new approach to immigration. President Bi...

Like most economists, Deus is convinced Cuba's communist revolution has no choice now but to accommodate an entrepreneurial revolution. We are like more than 30% of [Cuba’s] working population, which is something very important. So we need to survive in this moment because it's our responsibility to make this country better in the long term. Toward that end, Deus believes Cuba's long overdue currency reform is a good thing. It’s execution so far, however, is another thing. I think in the medium and long term it will be positive. It shows, like, the maturity of our government, to finally d...

Thursday, December 31, 2020 by Tim Padgett (WLRN ) Photo: Kayla Gibson Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. As we reported earlier this week, a Haitian-American church leader from Miami and his daughter were abducted last week in Haiti. They’ve been released. But WLRN’s Tim Padgett reports the incident reminds the Haitian diaspora they too are targets of Haiti’s ransom kidnapping wave. On Christmas Eve, Seventh-Day Adventist Church Past...

/ WLRN Fort Lauderdale police officers safely captured the kangaroo that was hopping around the city — and took it to the police department horse stable. Instead of our usual Weird Florida stories of the year — because who needs more weird this year? — we're bringing you some of the moments of joy WLRN staffers encountered during this year. Lots of news organizations do year-in-review stories. Here at WLRN, we usually assemble our staff's favorite Weird Florida stories. Because we're in Florida and we know how to bring the weird. But in 2020, we just felt like we'd all had enough of th...

AP HORRIBLE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Cemetery workers bury COVID-19 victims outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, last summer. Brazil recorded the world's second-highest number of coronavirus deaths this year, behind the U.S. As if the region's coronavirus catastrophe wasn't enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too. As it was for the rest of the world, COVID-19 was overwhelmingly the top story of 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean. And the most tragic. Brazil alone has recorded the world's second-highest number of COVID deaths, behind the Uni...